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I’m going to interrupt my Japan coverage to mention that one of the things in the stack of mail awaiting us at home was the latest issue of Computer Music magazine. In it is an article about pitch shifting, starting with the old Harmonizers and going through the current crop of intelligent harmony-effects plug-ins. There [...]

We are, at long last, safely home. The alarm clock woke us up in Kyoto almost exactly 27 hours ago as I write this. I don’t think either of us has slept more than a couple of hours since. Our already-long layover in San Francisco ended up being about eight hours because our flight was [...]

We’re about to check out and head home. This will be my last post from Japan but (as previously mentioned) not the last post about Japan.
It’s been a good trip. Yes, it’s a major drag that Tracie is ill and that we have to cut the trip short. However, we did see some beautiful and [...]

Today we spent the day in Nara, Japan’s oldest capital city. Nara is home to a huge Buddha statue (even larger than the one we saw in Kamakura) housed in the world’s largest and oldest wooden structure. (I wonder about the “largest” assertion, though; I thought that the old blimp hangars in Oregon were the [...]

First, a sitrep: we had hoped to fly home on Monday the 9th, but United was unable to accomodate this change. We’re now flying home on the 11th. Tracie’s condition seems to be stable for the moment. The silver lining to our cloudy situation is that we’re able to salvage some of our original plans [...]

It’s been a long day and I’m somewhat tired, so this may be a somewhat abbreviated entry. We’ll see how much I can type before I have to call it a day.
We left the hotel in Kanazawa this morning –gee, come to think of it, I haven’t said anything about getting to Kanazawa in the [...]

We are in our hotel at Kyoto, which adds new dimensions to the word “posh”. Sadly our stay here will be much shorter than planned. The room does have a nice, fast Ethernet connection (and a multi-purpose scanner/fax/printer, and a remarkably stocked mini-bar, and complimentary Hennesy and other stuff we can’t drink, etc. etc.) so [...]

This will be my last posting here until we’re back home. I have a bunch more photos to post but I don’t expect to post the from here, given the circumstances and the necessity of making a long-distance phone call just to get a slow dial-up connection. Check back in a few days. Thanks for [...]

Special note to those of you who are directly affected by our change in plans (Hi Judy and Lisa): we’ll provide details when we have them.

We have arrived in Kanazawa. I’m gonna be brief because I have to make a long-distance call just to get a modem connection, and a slow one at that.
We’re bailing out. Tracie is getting worse and the backup antibiotics she brought “for emergency use only” aren’t agreeing with her. Current plan is to head to [...]